Antarctica could warm much faster than its surroundings over the next few decades due to a phenomenon known as polar ...

Antarctica could be completely ice-free one day if we allow climate change to continue unabated. The change will take ...

Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the sun sets in April and ...

As bubbles rippled across the frigid Finnish lake, diver Daan Jacobs emerged from a hole carved out of the thick, crackling ...

Global warming is on a very ominous trend that has never happened throughout human history, according to a recent study in Geophysical Research Letters.

A study published today found that while ice shelves in West Antarctica melt year-round, those in East Antarctica experience summer melting spikes, when sea ice retreats and warm ocean water flows ...

The New York Times went on an expedition to study Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers. CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times For much of January and February, Raymond Zhong, a New York ...

Temperatures taken from Antarctica Thursday were the hottest ever recorded for the normally-frigid continent. According to The Washington Post, the temperature was recorded at 65 degrees at the ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old. The goal of the French duo is to better ...

Ancient Antarctic ice sheet cycles affected subtropical ocean productivity by altering nutrient circulation. The 40,000-year obliquity cycle played an unexpectedly strong role, revealing deep global ...